mars296

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago

Your average Indian citizen is probably not as tuned in to the conflict as people in Western nations. Poor men in rural areas are pitched high wages (to them) for some easy work like building barracks away from the frontline. The same thing was happening in Cuba. Then once they arrived in Ukraine they were put in combat roles.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

No! Don't release more balloons!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Goggle translate doesn't have Louisiana Creole since there is only 10k speakers. Haitian Creole is actually the only Creole language it has. Probably because there are 12 million speakers and they have a decent population in the US.

I don't know why you call me lazy for not doing hours of research for a quick comment letting you know 2 languages are different. I didn't say that they weren't similar. They are distinct. Especially in writing the differences would be obvious due to spelling differences to words that are pronounced similarly. I found some Louisiana Creole online to show you the difference:

English: Where do you come from?
Louisiana Creole: Éyou to sòr?
Haitian Creole: Ki kote ou soti?

English: What did you say?
Louisiana Creole: Ki ça to di?
Haitian Creole: Kisa ou te di?

Some things are very similar and some things are very different. But especially when written, they are obviously distinct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Well I don't know. I actually recognized it hat you wrote as probably being Haitian Creole but I had to double check with a translator. I don't speak Louisiana Creole and Wikipedia says there is only 10,000 speakers.

I saw your Creole response and was wondering why someone would respond to an English post in Creole and went to your profile to see if you were Haitian. Then I realized your joke lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Haitian Creole is not the same as Louisiana Creole. Just fyi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

More likely I think we will see strict limits on what is considered an ebike and what is an e-motorcycle that is only allowed on roads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2024-02-16/key-biscayne-bans-e-bikes-and-scooters

Two days after a beloved island tutor was killed in a collision with an e-bike, Key Biscayne’s Council banned all micro-mobility devices, effective immediately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is also an MG 18, the ZB you mentioned may be a Bren gun, and there is a Japanese type 97 machine gun.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Based on the picture, he was definitely a collector. There are multiple collector's items in there. That said, he could be a black market dealer who also purchased collector's items for himself when he came across them. Also, does California not have more restrictive laws regarding Suppressors, short barreled rifles, and fully automatic machine guns? I thought they had laws regulating magazines to 10 rounds?

Article confirms that machine guns are illegal in California. He had multiple World War 1 era machine guns and other pieces that could be in museums. This guy should have just moved to a neighboring state. He had the money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just imagined a caretaker/servant seeing a tired Putin late at night, asking him if he was sleepy and offering him tea. Putin accepts tea and the servant returns to the kitchen to prepare the tea. The servant is immediately thrown out the kitchen window.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Could be 2 people shooting at each other. Could be 1 shooter and 1 "good guy" with a gun trying to stop the shooter. Could be 2 shooter working together. Could be loud sound mistaken for gunfire and then 2 "good guys" try to save the day and shoot at each other.

In my opinion these are in order of most to least likely.

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